Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's only been up since quarter to three |
| 2 | Having worked for a number of years now in community health services , previously erm in Yorkshire , in fact I 've only been down in Oxford about four or five months , I 've learnt how important it is in fact to make good working contacts with members and officers of other organizations , and particularly of local authority organizations . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't dislike it , but I 've only been out with Charles about three times … ’ |
| 4 | I 've only been out of prison three months . |
| 5 | Since 1969 , Ron and Reggie Kray have only been out of prison once . |
| 6 | The men had only been out of jail for about two years after being sentenced to 10 years for firearms offences and plotting to kidnap an Eton schoolboy and hold him to ransom , but the judge said he accepted the men had both paid the price for these crimes and sentenced them to 4 years in prison . |
| 7 | Quality systems have naturally been around within Ciba Geigy for a long time and all aspects of manufacturing on the site have been registered to ISO 9001 since 1987 . |
| 8 | Both had been returned by huge majorities , having long been out of office . |
| 9 | The wearing of beards had long been out of fashion at Rome : as we have seen , the contenders for power at the death of the Republic imitated the clean-shaven kings of the Hellenistic world . |
| 10 | Right lovely thank you Ah I suppose I better be off to work . |
| 11 | I 'll ob obviously be over in Attenburg or in Rushton |
| 12 | 3140 Number of items in is out of range : |
| 13 | Count down 's on to D-Day |
| 14 | And our all round cricket has not been up to standard . ’ |
| 15 | Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par . |
| 16 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 17 | not been on for ages . |
| 18 | HARRY 'S LADY : Has not been out since July when chased leaders until faded three furlongs out 9l 5th to Sir Danik ( Nottingham 1m , Gd-Fm ) . |
| 19 | I tend to favour the idea that people who have not been out of business too long could probably play a valuable role , although I accept that , if someone has been out of active business life for two or three years , his contacts and awareness of up-to-date affairs may have changed . |
| 20 | I had not been back with Bill Francis two minutes before she appeared . |
| 21 | If you go back to work before the end of 28 weeks and are then absent again , Statutory Sick Pay will be payable for each period of absence until your 28 weeks ' entitlement has been exhausted , provided you have not been back at work for more than 8 weeks . |
| 22 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 23 | He had not been back to Stowe since the day he left , almost seventeen years before . |
| 24 | They had not been back in London long before he and Ricky left for the West Indies . |
| 25 | Because if you had not been down in Minya chasing that gipsy woman you would have been at the theatre . |
| 26 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 27 | The decision would probably have gone the other way had 100,000 men not already been back at work , mainly in the more prosperous East and West Midland areas . |
| 28 | Has he already been out to dinner with someone before coming here ? |
| 29 | I 've just been up to Tesco 's . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just been on to Mallachy . |